In 2013, can any community on earth surrounded by the ocean remain passive in the face of unmistakable climate change? If you don't trust your own memory and sense of the weather to tell you something's changed, there's more than enough accurate, trustworthy analysis and prediction out there.

Have you noticed that the League of Women Voters Candidates' Forums had to be canceled in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, and West Tisbury, due to lack of contested elections? We have just learned that there are no contests in Tisbury and Chilmark either, so those forums have now been canceled.